弱法師
Yorobōshi
Shimomura, Kanzan1915
Details
- Title
弱法師
Yorobōshi
- Date
- 1915
- Period
- Taishō Era (1912–1926)
- Width
- 4070 mm
- Height
- 1875 mm
- Artist
- Shimomura, Kanzan
- Medium
- Color on silk,
- Folding screen
- genre
- Religious art
- Collection
- Tokyo National Museum
Description
Inspired by a Noh play of the same name, the painting depicts a blind man named Shuntokumaru praying under plum blossoms with the setting sun in the distance. The scene, set in the garden of Shitennō-ji in Osaka, spans four meters across two six-panel folding screens. Unveiled at the second Inten exhibition in 1915, Yorobōshi was designated an Important Cultural Property in 1967.
Tokyo National Museum; Source: ColBase
